Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exports, both Belgium and The Netherlands suffered payments deficits in 1966, rebounding last year only after German business picked up again. Italy paid a heavy price in unemployment and bankruptcies to achieve a payments surplus starting in 1964. Having taken that medicine, the country has swung into a new boom providing more jobs, consumer goods and little inflation...
...series of articles that began last September, the paper told how six prominent Long Island Republicans and many lesser fry had been using public office to make a killing from Islip's surging land boom. Their favorite stunt was to buy residential land around Islip, rezone it for business, and then sell at a handsome profit. It was a coordinated effort. In one instance, the paper discovered, Town Attorney Walter Con-Ion, who was later appointed a state tax commissioner, drew up a resolution relaxing zoning restrictions on land he had bought in partnership with a Long Island hoodlum...
...Viet Cong infrastructure in the hamlets and pacify the population, this also is seen as primarily a Vietnamese chore. The ultimate goal of the war is for the allegiance of the people of South Viet Nam, says a Pentagon general, "and as long as the guns boom in the distance, the war is still on for the people. I would like to get rid of the boom, boom." In its place, he wants to hear the tweet, tweet of a train engine. "That's a sound," he said, "that will say something to the people...
...largely undeveloped interior. The drive has also attracted hundreds of Grileiros (land grabbers), who have come and gone, buying up acreage for virtually nothing. Since Brazil built the city of Brasilia out in the vast wilderness for its capital, however, the land buying has developed into a full-fledged boom...
...butte above New Mexico's Leandro Canyon last week, chilled ob servers fell silent as a voice on the public-address system reached the end of the countdown. For a tense moment, nothing happened. Then the earth jolted underfoot and a dull, distant boom was heard, followed by a second, more gentle, rolling shock. Someone shouted: "We did it! We did it!" Hand shakes were exchanged all around. The U.S. had successfully set off the first nuclear explosion sponsored jointly by the Government and industry...